The Canadian Columbia Group of Labels 1921-1931: How to Distinguish Canadian from American. Online Discographical Project - Listings from record company card files and observations. American Vintage Record Labelography / American National Discography (AVRL/AND) project. Alternative Recording Formats and their Six Degrees of Separation. View thousands of labels right here. Contribute your own,...

• I am always looking for large amounts such as Radio DJ and amusement company jukebox stocks, unpicked radio station libraries, select collections and truly rare individual pieces-often on obscure labels. • I also buy ALL SPEEDS of 1950′s and 1960′s Modern Bop Jazz, Blues, Rockabilly, Rock & Roll, Garage, R&B, Doo-Wop Vocal Groups and Soul. • I also buy Pre-1920′s Records on labels such as...

The 78rpm Collectors' Community is a research hub and social network for collectors of 78rpms recordings, phonographs, memorabilia, recording machines and the history of the 78 rpm era. Upload your 78rpm clips. Simply register for an account, select which clips you want to contribute and then use...

Our packaging limits the amount of records in one package to a quantity of three. You may choose as many records as you like, but we can only ship three records in a box. Shipping in the United States is done by Media Mail through the US Postal Service. The first record is $7.00 and each...

Music takes center stage in today’s What’s It Worth? We answer a reader’s question about an early 20th century cornet handed down in the family. There is also an eye-appealing vinyl phonograph record that demonstrates not all records have just average value. The 78 rpm clubs aim is to collect and preserve everything concerning the fragile sound carriers. This site shall be informative,...

This website has been set up to offer for sale original rare 78 rpm recordings of the greatest singers from the late nineteenth and early years of the twentieth century. This web site has been set up to offer for sale through ebay rare and original recordings of the greatest singers and instrumentalists from the late nineteenth and early years of the twentieth century. We offer an extensive...

The best and most complete source of information on antique 78 rpm children's records. What is this website all about? The Kiddie Rekord King" (aka Peter Muldavin) is the world's leading expert on vintage (78 rpm) children's records. I have the largest collection in the world of these nostalgic treasures. You will remember some of your old kiddie record 'friends' such as Genie The Magic Record,...

How do I preserve my records so I can play them tomorrow. We carry comic bags, mylar sleeves, polyethylene bags, backings, boxes and mailers. 2. Another material used to make some of the first sound recordings was Shellac. Some were made from organic shellac and some were made from commercial resins. It is difficult to discern which is which, but most recordings after WWII were made with resins...

Maybe you just like the beat of vintage music! There's a any number of reasons why people like us opt to restore vintage recordings. There's also the added benefit of knowing you've helped preserve a piece of sound heritage. It's even better when during the process you can retain the original fidelity and sometimes get recordings sounding better than the day they were made! But don't take my...

Purists will complain that Björling ignores the soft dynamic on the climactic B-Flat in Don Josés Flower Song, but so did almost everyone else. Few, however, sang the entire aria with the kind of hushed beauty and at the same time authentic emotional intensity that the tenor conveys here. Hastings notes tell us that there is a total of eleven recorded performances by Björling of Sibelius...

VRPS - Vintage Radio & Phonograph Society Local club based in Irving, Texas. While the club tends to focus mostly on old radios, one can occasionally find phonographs for sale at their members-only auctions. If you have an interest in vintage radios, this group is highly recommended. The club sponsors a number of activities including vintage radio restoration classes, monthly swap meets,...

Several well known and recorded musicians are reported to have had larger or smaller parts in the film. These include Gus Cannon, Jim Jackson, Victoria Spivey, The Dixie Jubilee Singers and Eubie Blake. Spivey is easy… she has a credited role throughout the film as “Missy Rose” the good, pure country girl who is the rightful heir to the affections of the lead character Zeke. Unfortunately,...

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As part of the 2015 European Heritage Days, the French Huffington Post invited the team of the BnF’s digital library Gallica to become a one-day community manager. For this occasion, several “Gallicanautes” (these intensive users of Gallica sharing their finds online) were invited to publish an article about a document of their choice. I chose to write …. As a collector of 78rpmrecords, I...

Introduction By the mid 1960s the 78rpm record had become a scratchy memory in the world of recorded music. The tenacity of this format in some markets however resulted in some of the most unusual and unexpected releases ever. Great Britain's EMI records continued to issue 78s in India until at least 1968, legend has it due to the preponderance of wind-up phonographs there. Among those are a...

We do have the largest archive in the 1895-1960 period (circa) of 78 rpm records that were pressed or recorded in Spain, with a stock of 75.000 78 rpm records. We are based in Madrid, so we are speciallized in the rich spanish production of all genres, although we also have many other records pressed in different countries. Since 2000 we deal with 78 rpm records and phonograph cylinders, having...

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78 rpm record collectors seem to have a variety of ambitions. Some collect beause they get a thrill from owning the original artifacts associated with their favorite music. They may be willing to spend $500 or more to own an original Victor 78 of Charlie Johnson's Paradise Band, even though the music is readily available on CD reissues. Others collect because they enjoy music that can't be had...